Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/01

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Subject: RE: [Leica] PC or Mac?
From: "Austin Franklin" <austin@darkroom.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 17:33:00 -0500

> This is a little off-topic

A little?  I say we stone him...

But...get far more than 128M, more like 256M as a min, and even 512M if you
can.  A 4000DPI color scan of 35mm is 1 x 1.5 x 4000 x 4000 x 3 or 72M
bytes...so manipulating that file in PhotoShop is going to use a LOT of RAM.

Also, disk space gets eaten up VERY fast...so you may want to strongly
consider a much larger hard disk...

Personally, I use a PC, and it really is a personal preference.  I do
believe 'more' is available for a PC than a Mac, and it also seems to be
cheaper...